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TOI, AMRITSAR/LUDHIANA: On January 8, Sukhwinder Singh showed extraordinary courage when he chased and confronted two youth near East London’s Barking station, after seeing them mugging a young woman. He was stabbed by one of them and died in hospital. He was subsequently declared a hero by London Metropolitan Police.
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WSN, AMRITSAR: Throwing of all caution of deep and wide ranging ramifications in future to the Sikh community, the five provosts –Jathedars of the Sikh nation today excommunicated a former provost, Prof. Darshan Singh from the annals of Sikhd“om allegedly for his utterances against the tenth Master, Guru Gobind Singh.
Tags: guru gobind singh, prof darshan singh, sikh community, sikh nation, sikhs
Port-au-Prince, Haiti : UNITED SIKHS’ second volunteer team arrived at Port-au-Prince yesterday and started serving langar (the Sikh tradition of serving hot meals cooked in a community kitchen) to survivors of the earthquake. Harcharan Singh and Amritpaul Singh, both from Brampton, Canada, arrived earlier this week to join the ongoing relief efforts in Haiti.
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Thumbs up to two dozen people from the Sikh community, who distributed about 450 blankets to people living in homeless encampments near downtown Fresno.
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Amritsar, Mar 27 (PTI) : SGPC Chief Avtar Singh Makkar today condemned the Congress High Command for allocating party tickets to Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar and warned that the people of the state will give a befitting reply to the party in the coming Lok Sabha polls for doing so.
In a statement here today Makkar held both Tytler and Sajjan Kumar directly responsible for the mass killing of Sikhs during the anti Sikh riots in various parts of Delhi in 1984. He said that while allocating tickets to such people, the Congress had once again proved that it was anti-Sikhs. Sikhs during the Parliament elections would give a befitting reply to the Congress, he added.
Accusing the Congress of never thinking for the welfare of the Sikh community, Makkar held the party directly responsible for the operation Blue Star 1984 and ruining the Akal Takht (highest temporal seat of Sikhs) saying that the wounds inflicted by the Congress on the Sikh Psyche are still unhealed.
Tags: 1984, akal takht, anti sikh riots, riots, sikh community, sikhs
London: One of London’s most important gurdwara, housing priceless religious books and swaroops of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, have been burnt in a suspected racist attack in Britain, a news report said on Tuesday.
Eye-witnesses on Tuesday said that a man, who entered the Gurdwara Sikh Sangat in East London, managed to escape just before flames were first seen.A group of women, who had spotted the intruder, tried to put out the raging flames in one of the holiest parts of the gurdwara, which was built at Bow in 1979.
Most of the gurdwara’s roof collapsed and worshipers fear all but one of its eight holy books have been destroyed, the ‘Evening Standard’ newspaper said on Tuesday. Eye-witnesses described the suspected arsonist as being black or mixed-race. A worshiper said he had noticed racist graffiti on one of the gurdwara’s outer walls in the past few weeks.
A criminal investigation has been launched and police and fire investigators are treating the blaze as suspicious. The building, which dates back to 1854 was formerly a synagogue and before that a chapel. The London Fire Brigade confirmed that 75 per cent of the building and the roof had been damaged by the fire.
“Police are treating this incident as suspicious,” a Metropolitan police spokesman was quoted as saying by the British daily.
Gurpal Singh, an eye-witness who visits the gurdwara regularly, said the attack was carried out “deliberately”.
“Somebody did this deliberately. A man came in and got to the temple’s holiest area. He was interrupted by one of the women, but managed to get away. As he ran out, the place went up in flames. Everyone panicked. The women tried to put out the fire, but it was too fierce,” Gurpal, an IT worker from Chingford, was quoted as saying by the British paper.
35-year-old Gurpal said the women managed to save one of the holy books but the flames took hold before they could get to the other seven.
“I can’t describe how important those holy books were to the Sikh community,” he added.
Kulvinder Singh Virk, 26, another member of the gurdwara, said: “This is very personal for us. It’s as if a member of our family has been burnt to death.” Kamaljet Kaur, a 24-year-old from Stamford Hill, said her aunt was in the temple when the alleged arsonist struck.
“The women thought he was a robber. It was only when they got upstairs that they discovered the fire raging,” she said. More than 50 firefighters battled the flame for almost eight hours after being called just after 2 p.m. yesterday, the report said
Tags: east london, fire police, gurdwara, guru granth sahib, racist attack, sikh community, sikh sangat
Surrey resident Sarwan Singh achieved a feat, which every Sikh is going to be proud of. He set a new Guinness Book of World Record by having the longest beard. Singh’s beard was measured at 2.36 meters or 7.7 3/4 ft, at a jam packed, Akal Academy in Surrey BC, on November 11, 2008. Over 200 people came out in support of the Akal Academy Music Teacher and his attempt at breaking the world record.
The previous record was held by Shamsher Singh of Punjab, India, with a beard last measured at 1.83 metres in 1977.
“This is history in the making,” said Dr. Pargat Singh Bhurji, the principal and president of Akal Academy Surrey, where Singh is a popular and respected music teacher.
“Mr. Sarwan Singh is a devout, humble, spiritual man and his beard is considered as a divine gift. He’s blessed, he’s gifted. Hair is a divine gift. So this is a divine gift from God,” said Dr. Bhurji.
Singh stood on a stool while his beard was dipped in water, brushed and then measured three times on a flat surface with a measuring tape as the judges and media and over 200 other witnesses looked on.
As he posed for pictures with his wife and two children, Singh’s beard hung from his chin to the floor.
“I have a feeling of divine happiness and I am thankful that God has chosen me for the gift of the longest beard,” said Sarwan Singh, 42. The measurement was presided over by Surrey-Newton MLA Harry Singh Bains, Surrey RCMP Sgt. Baltej Singh Dhillon and lawyer Sukhjinder Singh Grewal.
Sarwan Singh’s family told CBC News they were exceptionally proud of his achievement. “Not only to me, he’s inspiring to the Sikh community,” said his young son Bikram Singh, sporting a tuft of hair on his chin that may one day set another record.
As a devoted Sikh, Singh does not cut or trim his hair, not just his beard, as uncut hair is one of the five objects (Five K’s) or symbols of faith of the Sikhs who have taken the vows of the Khalsa, as outlined by the tenth Guru of the Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singh. “Whatever God gives us, it is just our job to take care of that. Don’t cut it or don’t do anything to it,” Singh’s daughter Gursimran Kaur told CBC News.
In addition to the Guinness World record, the event started with the students of Akal Academy performing Dhadhi Varan, a Sikh musical composition, explaining Sikh history taught to them by Sarwan Singh and other Akal Academy teachers. This was followed by talks on the importance and significance of hair from both a scientific and religious viewpoint as reflected in the teachings of the Sikh religion.
For more pictures visit: BaruSahib.org
Tags: divine happiness, guinness book of world record, punjab india, sikh community, spiritual man, tenth guru